The Universe does not have any meaning, and neither does life. Religion is fabricated meaning. It supposes itself to offer a explanation, which we find to be both ridiculous and meaningless upon investigation.

It is very difficult for a goodly proportion of humans to accept that the universe is so big and old and cold and dark, that it simply doesn’t care about a few hairless apes on a small wet rock near an unimportant star. They really do struggle with that.

And once human societies developed the ability to produce above subsistence (even slightly), that gave the charlatans their way of earning a living.

You see, I would take the bit I quoted, and I would go further: that the people who profit from the fabricated meaning, know full well that it’s fabricated – and that especially includes the originators of each set of silly stories.

I am reminded of a great quote by R. G. Ingersoll:

Why did ‘god’ so organise things, that a murderer could transfer his sins to a lamb, and then sacrifice the lamb as a sin offering?

Because priests love mutton.

I recently watched a TED talk by Sharyl Atkisson (a lady I had never heard of until 5 minutes before I watched the TED talk): about 5:40 in she put it beautifully –

Few themes arise in our environment organically

I think that puts it about as succinctly as it can be put, without the utterer looking like a wild-eyed mad person. I would have put it differently:

All themes in the legacy media are deliberate social engineering. Every single one.

There are more than a couple of key memes in The Walking Dead:

First, it should not be seen as coincidence that the primary hero is a pig in the ‘before’. (There was a short arc in which there were some pigs heading up a ‘bad’ group, but they were bad apples).

Second: the Pig is the only guy leading a troupe that doesn’t descend into depravity (be it cannibalism like that ‘sanctuary’ place, or the hyper-violence of the ‘Saviours’).

Third: there was a short-ish story arc that gave a hint that the virus originated in US Defence Department labs (as the Spanish Flu of 1918 almost certainly did)… that arc died very quickly.

Fourth: the overarching idea that once the State fails, all hell breaks loose – that State agents are agents of order, and that in any situation in which State agents do not possess overwhelming numerical and technological superiority, ‘bad actors’ will take over.

I think this is very well written and the main idea is clear and should be well considered by anyone who thinks critically. The “zombie” phenomenon is definitely a newly emerging metaphor people relate to that may well be transforming into a myth.

Clearly the critique of Communion is causing some difficulty and not without justification, especially from those who have a strong spiritual connection to the Scriptures.

It is worth mentioning T.S. Elliot here. He was a devout Christian who nevertheless wrote ‘The Waste Land” and “The Hollow Men” in the early 20th century. These are deeply troubling poems that highlight the same message.

Collectively, we are dying and the reflection we see of ourselves in others is a zombie, whether we like it or not.

Robert Bonomo cites the resurrection story as that of the “Catholics” and dates it to the third century a.d. Perhaps he would do well to understand a topic he writes on before he writes on it. He also dates it from the third century (a.d.). The ressurection story is not merely the province of the “Catholics”; it is the central doctrine of all Christianity. It dates from St. Paul in the late first century and even before Paul. Paul clearly states it in First Corinthians, Chapter 15:
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

The ressurection is foundational for Christians, ROMAN Catholics, protestants and Orthodox. I know that and I’m not even a Christian. Clearly Robert Bonomo and the editors of Unz Review are not only not Christian, they are not educated in the history of the last 2,000 years. Understanding Christianity is foundational to understanding western (European) civilization. To not have done so is utter ignorance.

I admire Unz Review for giving voice to a variety of opinions, some of which I agree with and some, not. But it would be wise to present a variety of educated opinions of which Robert Bonomo’s is not one.

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I’ve read further and Robert Bonomo states that ” [f]or Galileo the universe, including the earth, was alive but by the time of Newton it was a dead machine.” This is absolute rubbish! Newton believed that God’s universe could be understood by understanding His creation. Newton was autistic; mathematics was a form he understood well. Therefore, to Newton, God’s universe was built upon mathematical principles. The mechanism that Mr. Bonomo speaks of was a nineteenth century invention, called materialism, which corrupted and subverted the Newtonian project by denying the very existence of a God who could be understood. Marx and Darwin were materialists and look where that got us.

I thought it was Luther and his apostasy against sacraments (symbols) that tore the Church apart, not the Trentine theology that kept what remained of it together and alive.

I get what you say about “in but not of this world” – however, the details are still up for debate, as other Scripture does not necessarily imply adopting utopian communal values as the only way for salvation.

Interesting writing. To me, the latter half makes more sense. Those who love The Walking Dead are suburban people devoid of connections to others and reality, ergo pretending to find in the connections between the TV characters and the scariness of the “zombies” (actors with makeup on and/or CGI), the reality they need. When I went through the Ecuadorian earthquake and saw a robber get nearly lynched, and bread and power and water run out for hundreds of thousands, I realized that those glued on their TVs (and their comic books and cons) would never survive the real thing, and that reality always surpasses fiction.

“Total bullshit. Read some history. Cannibalism has been around since the species stood upright (and still is). Incest as is defined in Western culture was also venerated in many tribal societies. Your attempts to project Judeo-Christian “values” have made you blind to historical facts.”

True, cannibalism, and incest have been around for a long time, but the Judeo-Christian value of taboo in these arenas was thankfully put in place a long time ago. Advancement of civilization, or just plain mental health doesn’t work so good when these vulgarities are venerated and practiced.

By all means, please feel free to join some obscure, primitive tribe who still enjoys their waring, cannibalistic jaunts. I am sure you will be glad to be free of those, oh-so-cumbersome Judeo-Christian “values”.

…”But what has “caught up” is mind-control and how this propaganda can be used to create armies of mindless consuming insatiable zombies. This is why there is no happiness in a consumer culture, we are force-fed the lies of “happiness” that can only be “found” in consumption and insatiable entertainment.”…

That is a bit extreme don’t you think? To say there is ‘no’ happiness in consumer culture? There are plenty of people who find ‘happiness’. Usually, these are people who have their values in place, and love their friends and family. Many people don’t possess the ‘keep up with the Jones” attitude.

All those ridiculous individuals who waited in line at the WalMart, and were pushed so hard they ran over and crushed to death a WalMart guard…Well, I certainly don’t think I have much in common with any of them.

It’s not about ‘mind-control’. It’s about not being stupid enough to be clueless about what you are ‘buying’ into.

These girls
constantly looking at their phones, and people doing what the media and school make them to believe is also a zombie status.

See, the guys next to you? Is using some kind of pill, is a zombie, bcse the brain stop working, the whole nation is drunk, now, this is why something is wrong around you.

Good luck.

I think you need to rethink your terminology concerning the dead. Ouspensky’s statements on Gurdiev’s analysis of life forms in his book “In search of the Miraculous” might be illuminating. There are pdf’s. Is an inanimate object dead? Contemporary scientists have discovered that electrons are flying about or vibrating in rocks. Why is that occurring? A dead universe? Prove it.

By the way, you are the first person I have read that has more directly addressed the spiritual side of cannibalism in this world since I read Ron L. Hubbard’s, “A Stranger in a Strange Land.” Some of Jesus statements indicate that he saw everyone in this world living the life of a cannibal. He talked about Pharisees devouring widows houses. He said that you have to chew on him and that a person must eat his body and drink his blood if they were going to have eternal life. These statements beg the question-”Do you know what you are presently eating?” Even today, most everyone is cannibalizing some resource in this world. If their source of income is from people, they cannibalize them, though hopefully not as thoroughly as a BCE pharisee.

Communion is an event that should remind Christians of where they are coming from and lead them to question what they are doing to ameliorate the conditions that exist in the world that sustain cannibalistic behavior. It is not without reason that in the first centuries of the Church, communities strove to develop strategies for living in but not of this world. Many Christians have over the centuries-Waldensians, Moravians, Holy Orders, lay orders like the Beghards and Beguines, and many still do.

The fact that Jesus’ body and blood is nourishing may seem macabre until you see the spiritual side- a sacrifice of the Order of Melchizedek. Communion is more spiritual than the wine and bread Melchizedek and Abraham shared but it is similarly a victory celebration that glorifies God and refreshes those who celebrate. Forget the Trentine theology of a blood(y) less propitiatory sacrifice. It is a Machiavellian creation that tore the Church apart that is only supported in this era by a cabal of populist priests and bishops, hoping to gather significant support for selfish intentions.

“Your attempts to project Judeo-Christian “values” have made you blind to historical facts. ”

Agree. I spotted that too. There is a lot of understanding missing here by the author.

“Science can give us answers to almost all our questions, yet in the end its meaninglessness is disquieting.”

The author misses his point – while having already stated it. The Universe does not have any meaning, and neither does life. Religion is fabricated meaning. It supposes itself to offer a explanation, which we find to be both ridiculous and meaningless upon investigation.

Life does not have to have meaning. It’s not even an appropriate question once you understand the mythos of mankind. Life is. Entirely accidental. You’re “here” because someone fucked your mother or your father. There is no other “meaning” to it. You get to use it for as long as you have it and then there is nothing. The Universe goes on. You don’t.

Looking for meaning is no different then looking “divine purpose” (cause and effect but with intelligent design and even guidance). That does not take that long to figure out. Religion is human response to fabricate meaning where there is none. Religion is based entirely on fiction and fictional stories that do not fit the historical record. It’s myth making at it’s finest. Early man’s attempt to explain the unexplainable (then, but not now). Science has answered all of that, and so has history, archeology, anthropology, biology, cosmology and so on.

Now we know. There is no meaning. Life happened. The there is nothing. The cosmos will remain. Indifferent, uncaring, uninterested and “dead” to life itself. The Universe is hostile, but so is much of the Earth where life flourishes. For now. Until it doesn’t.

The real zombies are those that seek to find meaning where there is none. Not finding it, they make it up.

The ghost of Adolf Hitler must be chortling in Hell…

I doubt very much if slaughterhouses or cattle stockyards will be around much longer. My first line of evidence is that there are no stockyards in Science Fiction. Futurists seem to tacitly accept that we will eat stuff made in factories in the future. We will not kill animals.

That day is closer than you might imagine. The so called “Impossible Burger” is here and fooling everyone. There are lots of YouTube videos attesting to how this veggie burger is indistinguishable from meat. I still eat real burgers but I am eager to try these new ones made from meatless meat.

There really are – or were – actual werewolves, vampires and zombies.

The werewolf legend probably is an interpretation of the phenomenon of serial killers. There have always been murderers in human societies but most of these have been easy to understand. Some guy kills his woman or her lover in a fit of rage. Easy to accept and deal with.

But serial killers which have probably always have been among us are hard to perceive. You are in a village where you know everyone and then there start turning up bodies from grisly ritualistic murders. You can’t believe it is any of your neighbors – so you imagine it must be a beast. But you have killed off all the dangerous animals in the area. You decide it must be one of your human neighbors who periodically turns into a beast.

Even with modern police forces backed up by large information systems it’s hard to spot a serial killer and even harder to apprehend him.

Most people today know what caused tuberculosis but only a century or so ago one theory was vampires. The neighbors would notice that a whole household would slowly contact TB and die. At one time the most common cause of death in England was ‘consumption’. This was before Koch and Pasteur. They saw a whole family gradually get paler and weaker as if they were having their blood drained. They decided that one family member had been ‘turned’ and then he or she fed on all the others.

Finally zombies are also a well known phenomenon in the Caribbean. Witch doctors would drug someone and convince him that they were thereafter dead (yet still partly alive). You make a man a zombie and you have a kind of slave who will do your bidding.

Rabies used to be called hydrophobia – after a key symptom. Vampires reflect the sympyon in their reaction to holy water

Re: “…The most heinous thing a human can do is eat another human. Fear of cannibalism along with the other two great taboos, incest and inter-family violence, are the bedrocks of human culture…”

I must, respectfully, disagree…
I’ll concede: I’ve NEVER responded to a ‘person, eaten / eating, another’ during my 22 year pre-hospital career; (22 Yrs.: E.M.T-Basic; 16 Yrs,: A-EMT-4-Paramedic, A.C.L.S.).
DON’T misunderstand: I’ve heard ALL the jokes about Chikitilo, (Russia), and Dhamer, (U.S.), including:
Q.) What is Jeffrey Dahmer’s favorite midnight snack? A.) The ‘Cold Shoulder’…

I’ve certainly seen things that would make some / most people ‘revisit’ launch, merely in the re-telling, because I’ve, (unintentionally…), caused a person, (or three…), to lose their lunch, via recounting some of my EMS ‘War Stories’, etc. however…
As unbelievably, terrible as some of the things I’ve run, into were…I NEVER ran into anything that might be considered to be, (potentially / actually…), causing a species extinction.
I’m reminded of a Star Trek episode where Capt Picard, (Pat Stewart), runs into an ‘Omnipotent_Being’ who has destroyed an entire species in vengeance for that species killing his wife, and Picard says: The Federation, “has no law by which to try this, (omnipotent), being…etc.”

The two primary concerns I have, re this issue, are:
1.) Thermonuclear_War
2.) Anthropocentric Global Weather Instability…aka, Co2-overdose.

I think #2 is the MORE insidious of the two, because this emergency is, (currently), in ‘full afterburner’, and NO amount of pretending OR, (Humpty_Trumpty’s / other’s), denial will solve the problem…
The other issue: our society is overly, dependent on Co2-producing functions…and it’s a very slow, ‘relatively’ gentle, quiet disaster, overtaking humanity like the water, sinking R.M.S. Titanic; (URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_RMS_Titanic#/media/File:Titanic_wreck_bow.jpg)…

Having accidentally, survived the late, Great 1 WTC, (destroyed via blasphemy, in Sept., ’01)…
I think the WORST, (criminal), act any hominid / group, of hominids can commit is…
Species Extinction.

One only needs to watch ‘Dr. Strangelove’, and realize, (given the 10′s, ‘O, 1,000′s of megatons, on 4-5 minute alert just like my paramedic ambulance. (…STILL), is / I used to be…
WILL occur so much faster than the hominid nervous system can inform it’s unfortunate hominid_owner, that…we, literally, WON’T know…
It is NOT a ‘rhetorical’ notion: ANY species extinction is forever!

Yes, there IS talk that Mammoths may be making a ‘test-tube’ comeback, via Mammoth D.N.A., combined with modern elephants / gestated in elephant wombs, and…
Presto: in some number of artificially, induced generations, the resulting animal(s) will be, (for all intents / purposes…), a 100% ‘mammoth’ animal just like it’s D.N.A. source, recovered from the slowly, disappearing northern tundra(s), was…

Which begs the question: Amazing as such a species_recovery will be…why are we bringing mammoths back, even as we’re proceeding to exterminate our, (current), elephant / other species??

Well, years later I just want to thank you for this essay. It stated more clearly than I could the truth of the world. The only thing missing is the identity of the perpetrators, and many of us know who they are.

What is also glaringly similar of these two separate events is the publics’ seeming willingness to believe the official mass media version of events which if looked at even half open mindedly do not pass the smell test. This is clearly a win for the mind control practitioners so skillfully trained by the likes of the Dulles brothers. For those whose fortunes are linked with the military industrial intelligence entertainment complex it is great to see so many so ignorant. For those interested in world peace or the advancement of humanity it should signal the enormity of the challenge just to arouse the blissfully ignorant people who so proudly cling to a fantasy democracy that is phony from top to bottom. The inability to recognize the wolf in sheeps’ clothing may well end mankinds chance to become a success. Thanks to men in the highest places.

Dude you hit it on the head! There is nothing new about zombies (as this article portrays them) that hasn’t been known for some time. The apocalypse is far from being a new concept. It is a ridiculous meme as far as I’m concerned. So is the narrative about a public dream from the collective unconscious. This is simple mind control brain washing as practiced by the studios and other film makers for quite some time. The visual occurrence of people killing each other on T.V. happens so frequently that I very nearly become ill if I have to watch for very long. Look at the proliferation of law enforcement themed shows. It is a keen observation you have made and shared with us. I only hope that our collective conscious becomes aware of the constant bombardment of thought control we are all being subjected to by the mass media fake entertainment complex.

We are all zombies? Speak for yourself, chump!

Zombie must read !

well, mighty joe young, i greet you with a poem.

man gets relgion

free range primate sees
zig zag zap
joshua tree
says to himself
lord
it cudda been me

Fear of cannibalism along with the other two great taboos, incest and inter-family violence, are the bedrocks of human culture. Without these taboos there is no human civilization,

Total bullshit. Read some history. Cannibalism has been around since the species stood upright (and still is). Incest as is defined in Western culture was also venerated in many tribal societies. Your attempts to project Judeo-Christian “values” have made you blind to historical facts.

Besides being inaccurate, I found the rest of your rhetoric difficult to read. You failed (badly) on all counts, especially with this claim:

“The zombie meme is clearly of the latter variety. It’s pointing to a fear that something has broken in our culture and what awaits us is a collective psychotic break of apocalyptic proportions.”

WTF? A “collective psychotic break”? You sir, are utterly deluded. You don’t think that the money-making machine of Hollywood and its subtle programming of the human mind has anything to do with the meme? Are you really that ignorant or just interested in selling articles? You also failed to comprehend how this factory of propaganda has programmed the whole world to accept so many delusions (ET’s, apocalypse, consumption, the American dream, etc.).

Civilization has rarely kept up with technological advancements. Human values and the comprehension of how these changes impact our society and individual lives lags far behind the constant acceleration of technology. But what has “caught up” is mind-control and how this propaganda can be used to create armies of mindless consuming insatiable zombies. This is why there is no happiness in a consumer culture, we are force-fed the lies of “happiness” that can only be “found” in consumption and insatiable entertainment.

You missed the Ark entirely (again, I cheçked out your other articles before posting this) and are standing out in the rain, forlorn and lost. You’re not even in the same ocean as the rest of us.

Did you forget that Israel killed 40 American sailors and Hundreds wounded during the 6 day war. They called it an accident, not to the sailors. They identified the Military ship as American and the flag was there clear rising and shining. What about the 5 Israelis who were CAUGHT FILMING THE PLANES GOING INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND GIVING EACH OTHER HIGH FIVES. They were picked up by the FBT and ordered to be released. They showed up on an Israeli TV, and said they were there to record the incident. Really? How did they know?

Did Carl Jung realize he was talking first about his own myth? That he was talking out of other orifices, beyond his own dream? That his dreams are flatulent ?

For consciousness to exist, memory must also, as would sensory perception. One would also presume a unity of thought, were sanity to exist.

Where do we find collective memory, much less perception, among the world population(s)? Collectively, people seem to forget during political campaigns how they have been beguiled repeatedly by the same rhetorical techniques. Few have the same perspective on historical events, even as witnesses to a crime or catastrophe. So much for collective memory.

Plenty of similar examples exist for perception and unity of thought. With such evidence, the hypothesis is adequately falsified.

It is far more probable that Eric Hoffer’s characterization of people attaching themselves to Mass Movements because of their founding ideology makes for the substance of the proposed Zombie mentality. The motives for such attachments Eric summarizes in The True Believer and The Ordeal of Change are far better insight than Carl’s flatulent babble.

Though I found elements of truth in this article, and appreciate the author’s attempt to awaken us to the frightful implications of our cultural enfatuations, there is an unfortunate lack of experience with the Eucharist- the quintessential act of Transubstantiation- the ritual celebration of possibility of transformation from one condition into another. This is a hermetic mystery that provides a key as to how our pathetic zombie existence can be transformed into a real Life, a Life symbiotic and resonate with all creation, and an illumined consciousness that knows itself in connection with the Divine Creative Source of existence- which is LOVE. Without recognizing the spiritual, cosmic dimension of being, the human being is doomed to a zombie-like shadow existence completely ignorant of our higher divine nature. In the Eucharist, Bread becomes elevated to the Bread of LIFE and wine to the Wine of DIVINE spiritual LOVE. The Words of Christ “I am the Bread of Life” and “I am the True Vine” are an invitation to step out of one’s limited egotistic confines into consciousness of the pleroma of Divine Grace. If one has never tasted such a moment of feeling connected to something so much bigger than the the uroborus of your mental processes, I urge you- get thee to a spring of living wisdom! I recommend Hafiz for starters…. then drink deep and ever deeper. Be not afraid of religion- it only means to reunite with the Divine source of All Existence.

Ego sum panis vivus, qui de caelo descendi. Si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in aeternum; panis autem quem ego dabo, caro mea est pro mundi vita. Johannes 6, 51

Amen , amen dico vobis: Nisi manducaveritis carnem Filii hominis et biberitis eius sanguinem, non habetis vitam in vobismetipsis. Qui manducat meam carnem et bibit meum sanguinem, habet vitam aeternam; et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die. Johannes 6, 53

Mr. Bonomo, interesting take on things but ultimately I don’t quite agree. Here is the subparagraph of my worldview that addresses the whole free-versus-slave thing: Freedom is in inverse proportion to security. An individual in solitary-confinement in a maximum security prison has 100% security but 0% freedom. At the opposite extreme is the “hermit” living in self-imposed exile with 100% freedom but never entirely sure of when & where his next meal is coming from and if attacked by a predator, human or animal, he is entirely on his own. Between those two extremes there is a reasonable middle-ground.

The hunter-gatherers are (or were) about as free as it is possible to be and each individual not having to live as a hermit – but their lives were, as per Thomas Hobbs, “nasty, brutish and short.” I’ve read that around the time of Christ the average lifespan was 20-22. (That’s probably factoring in a lot of infant-mortality).

My life is clean, comfortable, reasonably if not perfectly safe and I’m on-track to live well into my eighties. But I’m a “wage-slave” to a job that I hate, despise and loath and frankly, at home, my wife rules the roost. If I protest too much she could divorce me and take much of what I’ve worked roughly thirty-four years for so she’s got me over a barrel.

Hmmm, my day is ruined…

Is it possible that George Romero, et al, “invented” zombies not to express a philosophy or stimulate a discussion about the state of Western Civilization but to…..entertain and make a buck? Just a thought.

Generally a great article from CactusLand, but that one typo really needs to be corrected: “sacramental right“? I don’t like readers who nitpick for harmless typos, but in this case, it’s an essential distinction: the Eucharist is a rite!

BTW: one point the article misses is the probable connection of the popularity of zombie culture in America with the ubiquitous American carnivore culture, especially including the insanely mechanized slaughterhouse industry. (I speak as someone who has seen it up close, in real life.)

Guess I will have to go elsewhere to understand this infatuation with the zombie “meme”.

“… The vampire symbolizes seduction …”

A Spanish doctor noted, several years ago, that descriptions of human vampires are close matches to descriptions of humans dying of rabies — fear of bright light/mirrors, hypersensitivity to strong smells (eg garlic), aggression, biting, hypersexuality and sexual assault, the association with bats (common rabies vectors) and of course, those who are bitten or raped are likely to become vampires themselves.

I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld, I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down, and will let the dead go up to eat the living! And the dead will outnumber the living!
– Epic of Gilgamesh, ca. 2100 BC

This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.
– Zechariah 14:12-13, ca. 520 BC

Zionists don’t defend civilizations they destroy them.

The recent American “zombie apocalypse” craze is really a subconscious expression of life in a modern, ideologically, culturally and socially atomized country. Behind every seemingly friendly person you meet is a potential shambling monster waiting to be revealed, who depending on their hidden personal politics and beliefs, has the potential to gravely harm you and your livelihood through guilt by association etc, and thus must be treated with the utmost caution.

The Walking Dead resonates with young people because they can relate. To survive in this post-modern multicultural wasteland where there is no such thing as the common good they all must find their “group of survivors” ie; the highly stylized social niche groups of nerds, hipsters, punks etc that have developed in place of the old American monoculture.

” “A myth…is the product of an unconscious process in a particular social group, at a particular time, at a particular place. This unconscious process can naturally be equated with a dream. Hence anyone who ‘mythologizes,’ that is, tells myths, is speaking out of this dream.”

Hence the Myth of 9/11.

Held the Nation in sway for almost 15 years now.

Is it just too distressing to contemplate that we have no more “meaning” than the biological reproduction of ourselves?

That is the most powerful tool we have. That is the thing that determines creation or destruction.

…the zombie is a metaphor for the fecundity of a certain hyper-violent population… overwhelming the populations with below replacement fertility rates…

This. And it highlights the adage that demography is destiny; and that modern states promote dysgenics.

Christ is killed, buried, and comes to life three days later as the seed emerging from the ground, just as the moon hides for three days behind the sun each month, only to be born again.

I’ve heard of literary license, but that takes the cake.

The vast majority of Western people have a profound belief in science and science tells us that the story of Jesus is not to be taken literally, yet our churches insist that the ‘myth’ of Jesus is historical.

How does “science” “disprove” Christianity? And how would you square this with most of the pioneers in science being Christians? And even more incredible …

Myths are other people’s religions and for Westerners in need of spiritual ‘food’ the Eastern systems of yoga and Buddhism, which don’t depend on dogma that contradicts science, seem to be more palatable to their scientific worldviews.

It’s pretty hard to imagine a scenario where science disproves Christianity, and yet doesn’t do the same for other religions. The more logical explanation is that Westerners aren’t adopting Eastern religions; it’s just that, having rejected Christianity, they’re dilettantishly looking around for a replacement.

If you want to know what religion post-Christians actually adhere to, look at their taboos, the targets of their witch-hunts, their saints, and their sacred or a-priori truths.

Zombies are like sleep dreams and fairy tales – they can easily be interpreted psychologically in a variety of ways. And usually are. There usually seems to be at least a shred of insight in most interpretations. Anxieties about population and inescapable mortality are a couple of other more obvious dots that can be connected in zombie fiction.

Oh, and then there’s the matter of the zombies’ different skin color, different facial features (generally perceived as being ugly and menacing), extremely low intelligence, the complete lack of morals and the inevitable violence that occurs whenever they’re in large groups – whatever correlation that might have with any modern day population in the civilized world. I suspect this is a big part of the appeal of zombie fiction. My evidence? How is it that zombies are killed? With magic? Stakes in the heart? Silver projectiles?

No…they’re killed with plain ol’ guns. With lead bullets. The same down-to -earth way we imagine we would dispatch their real life counterparts, should it ever come to that. Fantasy zombie talk I encounter at gun ranges and forums often strikes me as being a sublimation of this very real anxiety. Remington even has a zombie shotgun. And it ain’t for huntin’ ducks or using as a prop in a horror movie.

People’s anxieties are going to reveal themselves one way or another, political correctness be damned. That’s part of being human.

Excellent discussion of the state of western culture as symbolized by the Zombie myth. Looking into the mirror can be upsetting to some. I personaly gave up Catholicism for my better mental health. If however it gives you meaning, then I am happy for you.

It is unfortunate that the real meat of this article – the clear and concise section cleverly subtitled Zombies Don’t Surf – was diminished, to the point of being almost overwhelmed, by the tastelessness of the rest of the text.

Generalization narratives like ”black against whites” or ”USA against Iran”, creates real human zombies.

In a conversation with a friend awhile back, it was presented to me that the reason there is such a prevalence of zombie shows is to get us peons comfortable with the idea of humans killing other humans. They use zombies so we aren’t as appalled.

Just putting it out there…

YES, WE ARE ZOMBIES, BUT WE CAN BECOME CONSCIOUS!
Charles T. Tart
Introduction by Peter Webster

In seeking to explore the elusive nature of consciousness, philosophers have sometimes resorted to “thought experiments,” much as physicists do when thinking about the enigmas of relativity. Todd C. Moody, associate professor in philosophy at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, recently contributed a paper to The Journal of Consciousness Studies in which he proposed such a thought experiment. Professor Moody’s ideas sparked a lively debate in the on-line discussion forum of the Journal, and led to a published Symposium on the subject of his paper which was entitled, “Conversations with Zombies”. (JCS, 1, (2), pp. 196-200, available at http://www.zynet.co.uk/imprint)

http://web.archive.org/web/19990117001446/http://www.calyx.net/~schaffer/lsd/zombie.html

Brilliant text!!! Most humans are in fact, zombies, specially because they have at least a little bit of awareness to know that they no have many potential genuine choices. The worst part, the zombie awareness to know you are a zombie.

I prefer “fairy tales from old storybooks” over this writer’s “myths.” The human inventions which have between them killed numbers so vast as to be incomprehensible are government and religion. They are both extraordinarily dangerous and destructive beasts that must be constrained to the greatest extent pragmatism allows.

The search for meaning in life is a lot of navel gazing. The overwhelming majority of us will never do anything remotely meaningful. And of those whose lives do have an impact greater than biological reproduction, as many or more will cause harm and suffering instead of knowledge and happiness. Aren’t these old fairy tales just the 1st Century CE equivalent of the Kardashians anyway? Common people with common lives doing common things and looking for a bit of entertainment and escape in tales of magickal resurrections or talking flora? Is it merely coincidence that the same people are drawn to both today? Is it just too distressing to contemplate that we have no more “meaning” than the biological reproduction of ourselves? Better somehow to go kill our neighbor because we like our old fairy tale better than his old fairy tale?

Humans (some of us anyway) have come an awfully long way in a very short span of time. In a mere 10,000 years some of us have gone from being hunter gatherers (and thus not much different from apes) to interplanetary exploration. Perhaps in the next few thousand years we will figure out our “meaning” is to ensure our biological reproduction is aimed at improving ourselves without inflicting harm on others. The rest is just entertainment.

Nevertheless, the realist in me says the zombie is a metaphor for the fecundity of a certain hyper-violent population without the intelligence to even sustain civilization overwhelming the populations with below replacement fertility rates and returning the earth to its state 20,000-50,000 years ago.

Don’t think so. The vampire symbolizes seduction while the werewolf symbolizes rape. Vampire movie are more numerous and popular than werewolf movies. Go figure.

It’s an incite-ful [sic] article, and a dumb one at that.

I can stomach the turgid word “meme” and the reference to charlatan Joseph Campbell, but the blanket statement “The most heinous thing a human can do is eat another human” is too much. The real zombies and the real human evildoers are those who would take part in a mindless military machine which kills by the millions.

Like Rocky would say, if I can be Estonian and yous can be Estonian, we can all be Estonians.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/02/24/u-s-military-vehicles-paraded-300-yards-from-the-russian-border/

I found this column to be offensive to Catholics and Jesus.

Over a billion Catholics in the world regularly transform bread and wine into what they believe is the actual flesh and blood of their savior, Jesus of Nazareth, and eat him.

Well, this is just the first of many inane comments about Catholics and The Eucharist and it illustrates just how ignorant the author is about the Eucharist.

Only a man who has received Holy Orders (Priest, Prelate, Pope) can confect the Eucharist.

The author also makes many other fundamental mistakes such as thinking carnally and materialistically about The Eucharist; apparently he knows nothing about what constitutes Transubstantion and so he confuses accidents for substance.

The Christian myth is agricultural..

Sacramental right

ha, ha, ha

This should have been posted at Eye of the Tiber.

O, and it is a pity that the author thinks just as did the Jews who rejected Jesus when He taught them about the Eucharist (John 6th chapter) but the author ought to have at least heard that Jesus is not dead and, thus there is no cannibalism.

As for science, please…

When it is warning us not to eat eggs, it is telling us about global warming and Piltdown men and just how safe Thalidomide is etc etc etc

Which is why I’m getting my werewolve costume early this year. Sure to be the next big thing

Brilliant article – much enjoyed this analysis of the popularity of zombies in our culture (they took over from vampires).

Push comes to shove, I value the lives of American children much more than I do non-American children. How about you?

Despite some glaring inaccuracies and over-generalizations, overall the piece is interesting and thought-provoking.

“The system is so advanced that those who do untangle themselves and cut their way out of the net are immediately branded as mentally ill, anti-social, or simply losers who can’t accept the ‘complexity of modern life’, i.e. conspiracy nuts.”

Perhaps he means someone like a homeless person or pan-handler living on the street. Certainly few if anyone would consider a radical thinker like Noam Chomsky “mentally ill, anti-social, or simply losers”.

@Plutonium Kid

Hahah.. did Bonomo’s essay really scare you that much or did it merely strike such a chord of cognitive dissonance that it left you squirming in mental anguish? Lighten up dude!

It’s sadly obvious that most of the negative replies to Mr. Bonomo’s article, comes from complete tools.I can see that most, if not all of you tools have been thoroughly educated by sitting in front of your TV’s and burping and farting large amount of odorous gases from your beer infused bodies.A friendly bit of advice, remove your collective heads from your asses and get a real life.

@AnthonyW:
You must be one of those Israeli-paid internet trolls –you obviously read/learned nothing from this article.
1] “What if Palestine had the guts to deal with Hamas themselves instead of allowing themselves to be used as human shields?”
Palestine DID “deal with” Hamas. They were the party freely elected. The reason they were popular is that they take a militant approach to dealing with Israel. Israel has not only reneged on every treaty with the Palestinian Authority government (like the Oslo Accords), they have violated the conditions of their UN membership –allowing the “right of return” of Palestinians displaced by the war in 1948.

2] “Palestinians are cowards and are just as much to blame for the deaths of their children as Hamas and Israel.” Some Palestinians are part of Hamas, many are not. That is irrelevent. Claiming that victims of military bombardment are as guilty as the aggressors who have ALL the jets, ALL the assault helicopters, and ALL the armored vehicles is beyond belief!

3] “All Muslims are cowards.” Glad you figured that out! Kids with rocks going up against soldiers with tanks are cowards. Got it. Thanks for the education.

4] “The world should completely eradicate Islam. Just imagine how great the world would be after.”
So. . . you’re in favor of the genocide of 20% or more of the world’s population? OK. Got it: now I understand the pro-Israel position! Thanks!

What if Palestine had the guts to deal with Hamas themselves instead of allowing themselves to be used as human shields? Palestinians are cowards and are just as much to blame for the deaths of their children as Hamas and Israel. All Muslims are cowards. The world should completely eradicate Islam. Just imagine how great the world would be after.

“Is in the distance” one of the kids? And the soldier isn’t aiming his weapon. Have you ever fired a rifle?

One side wants a cease fire. One side wants an extinction … and you know who each is.

“so an entire populace is being slowly killed off…”

In fact, their numbers are rapidly increasing. Seems a lot of posters here can’t distinguish a “genocide” from a population explosion.

everything you say reeks of hypocrisy at least people like rolf are honest about their feelings. gaza is under seize simply because the gazans choose hamas in a democratic election instead of fatah who now are the muslim equivalent of jewish helpers at the ww2 death camps. so an entire populace is being slowly killed off through collective punishment children being shot and killed at for loitering close to a check post and weapons and tactics are being developed to be exported at the expense of slaughtering the palestinians at reguler interval and it is the palestenians fault for lobbing a few rockets that does little to no damage.
gaza is the most densely populated piece of land in this face of the earth where almost every square inch of land is occupied where would you expect them to put the launchers on 7th dimentional plane dreamt up by the likes of you.
atleast be honest of your absolute loyalty to the state of israel

The “hundreds of missiles” propaganda is just that, meant only to justify Israeli facilitated genocide of civilians. How many Israeli’s were killed from those “hundreds” of deadly missiles? I’ll be shocked if you make it out of the single digits, if you can name more than one.

Those tunnels look an awful lot like the tunnels that the Jews dug out of the Warsaw ghetto. When the Germans maintain the ghetto, the tunnel dwellers are hailed as freedom fighters. When the Jews maintain the ghetto, the tunnel dwellers are labelled terrorists. I think that I can speak for the world when I state that the double standard of the Jewish narrative is out of gas.

The Jews also have an agenda to promote. I’d also be interested to listen to what you think that the agenda of the “Bonomos of the West” is, other than the destruction of the apartheid wall and self-determination and safety for 4 million Palestinians. Do those goals conflict with the Jewish agenda?

Yes, yes, the demonization of the Jews. Remind us how many Jewish civilians died in the last offensive, in comparison with Palestinian civilians?

The Jew cries out as he strikes you…this maxim holds as true now as it ever did.

We might call the abundance of pro-Israel journalism cartoonish. Articles that omit facts are pro-Israel, as are neutral articles. There are enough neutral articles. In reality, a neutral article is really not neutral since, by modern moral standard, the existence of an apartheid wall as well as mass civilian military induced casualties via precision weaponry attacks on residential structures is abhorrent and would be roundly condemned all-around if it was any other country that that owned by the privileged Jews. Comparing the Palestinian situation to apartheid South Africa is favorable to Jews, because the reality is that the situation is orders of magnitude worse. If Israel were any other country, there would be UN and/or USA military action against the perpetrators. Any article that doesn’t outright skewer Israel is favorable to Israel, which makes neutral articles actually decidedly biased in Israel’s favor.

I agree that the Jews have been wholly hypocritical in their killing of large Numbers of civilians in the apartheid ghetto that they insist upon and manage, as well as their facilitation of Marxism throughout the west while they forever hold to ultra-right wing internal politics, but that soldiers gun is pointing to his left and not at the kids. If you fall for the illusion then you aren’t looking hard enough. Look at his feet. Now look at the gun. It’s pointing left.

Zionism can no more be reformed than a rabid dog , there’s only one solution to both .

I hope the Unz Review declines to publish anything pro-Israel for three reasons.

(1) Our mainstream media is already committed to feeding Americans pro-Israel propaganda each and every day, 24/7. This site is a small respite from continuous pro-Zionist programming that dominates US media and pollutes the American mind. And the Unz Review–though generally critical of Israel–is honest about Israel. This is rare and extremely important. Israel deserves negative commentary considering its deplorable actions. Just count the dead, the dispossessed, and the damaged. Israel gets to operate above the law. This privilege is a cancer on world order.

(2) Our government is also committed to providing unconditional aid to Israel, even when this ‘aid’ brings genuine harm to America as well as wars and mayhem to millions more throughout the Middle East. Domestic Zionist pressures have produced this dangerous political distortion. And it’s been this way for decades.

(3) Zionism is a malevolent political force in the world. Perhaps this will someday change. But after decades of a fake ‘peace process’, the Israelis are ethnically-cleansing Palestine of non-Jews. This is racism. Israel’s intermittent wars on the people of Gaza is nothing short of a criminal enterprise. Zionists also pushed for America’s annihilation of Iraq, the destruction of Libya, the pending war on Syria, and the economic strangulation of Iran. Zionism is an evil force. It desperately needs reform.

You’re basic scenario is absurd. To correct it,
it would be “what if Israel had lost in 1948 and
eas reduced to a small sliver of land 11 miles long,
surrounded by 22 Jewish countries filled with and
ruled by Jews. Would the Jews refuse entry or aid
to their fellow Jews?”

The problem is that there was an exchange of
refugees after a war. The Jews took care of each other.
The Arabs hate each other. The more I see of Arabs,
the more I understand why.

Nothing to say Abraham ?

December 12, 1954 a Syrian civilian airliner was forced to land at Lydda / Lod Airport, Israel, by the Israeli Air Force . That is when you’re not shooting them down :Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114.Southern Lebanon? The Jews have been scheming to take over southern Lebanon since the time of the criminal Ben Gurion . Terrorizing the local population ? The Sabra and Shatila massacre. UN dole ? You’ve been on the US tit for 66 years you hypocrite . World’s one Jewish country? More like a Generalgouvernement .And just as legitimate . Your grip is slipping “They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind”.

Love your comments–especially about the “Western” name I’m “hiding behind.”

Antisemitism is the highest form of patriotism.

Any criticism of Israel and it’s policies brings the inevitable charge of antisemitism .My answer to that is “so what?” Israel is the original terrorist state starting with the Irgun murders and the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946 during the Mandate period and continuing right up to the present .The mass murderers Menachem Begin and Yitzak Shamir responsible for the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 instead of being hung for their crimes against humanity were both to end up as Israeli Prime ministers. While not a murmur about their crimes was heard.When in 1985 Kurt Waldheim was running for president of Austria it made headlines around the world because he had been an officer in the Wehrmacht during WW2 when his country was at war. During the 6 day war the Israeli’s deliberately attacked a US warship the USS LIBERTY killing 34 Americans and returning to strafe the life boats. By the way don’t rely on the Wikipedia article about this incident it’s a it reads like an Israeli press release ,which it probably is. James Ennes jr. the watch officer on the bridge has written an account of the attack and coverup ‘Assault on the Liberty” available from Amazon . In 1973 Israel shot down a civilian air liner over the Sinai Peninsula killing 108 people but don’t trouble your selves they were all brown . IN 1983 there came the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees (more brown people ) in Lebanon. In this case the Israeli’s used the Phalange Christian Militia as their proxies , much like the Nazis used the Ukrainians in WW2.this Crime occurred in the context of a much larger crime :the 1982 invasion of Lebanon arranged by war criminal and future Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon.The list goes on and on.If being against the policies a murderous racist state like Israel makes me an Anti-Semite I’m proud to be one.

Point taken Ron

Oh my heavens! There is nothing “evil” about this “racism”. It is a matter of survival.

You need to stop listeningto American Jews and start behaving like Israeli Jews. Don’t bother shaming American Jews, or pointing out the inconsistencies in Israeli Jewish behavior and American Jewish moralizing. Who cares? They don’t! Your race guilt improves the probability they will survive, thrive, and pass on their genes to their children. There is no shame in that. There IS shame in acting like a chump and a loser, being invaded and controlled by aliens and by going extinct. You don’t see the Jews doing that in THEIR homeland, do you? So why are you doing it in YOUR homeland?

“Why would the Palestinians want reminders of occupation contaminating their land?”

Well, I suppose that, like other people, they need to eat could be one reason.

You ladies seem to be having tremendous difficulty controlling your emotions. I am, by the way, agnostic.

Wow…just wow.
You really need to google the “high fivers”, and stop ignorantly accepting the drivel the USG feeds you.
Too lazy to think for yourself though, I suppose.

Wouldn’t it be “something” if ugly little Jewish girls didn’t write hate messages on outgoing munitions?

Heyyyyy, S***-for-Brains, are you still pissing and moaning about those greenhouses?
Why would the Palestinians want reminders of occupation contaminating their land? And oh, BTW: as an individual who has worked in the horticulture field her entire adult life, I can ASSURE you that greenhouses are far from a necessity in a climate such as Gaza’s. Not that you’d know a carnation from a pomegranate.

You’re hysterical.
You ARE aware, are you not, that the Psycho-raelis bombed UN shelters in which Palestinians took cover on several occasions?

What if the Jews received $3-plus billion annually of MY taxpayer dollars?
Oh wait….they DO.

You should be ashamed of the ignorance you display by making this remark. If you had any knowledge whatsoever of the situation, you would know that helpless Palestinians had their land stolen out from under their very feet in order to create “Israel”, a quasi-nation that exists only because of massive infusions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Or was the holocaust somehow THEIR “fault” now? The Palestinians are forced to live under brutal military law courtesy of a made-up country in what has been their own land for centuries!
Soooooooooo, the Palestinians have been fighting to gain back a PORTION of the land that the UN STOLE from them (they weren’t ask if they wished for any choice in the matter) and somehow they “deserve” the Israelis, the most psychopathic group of people ever to inhabit this earth?
The Irish fought the British for hundreds of years until they regained A PORTION of their occupied land. You wanna bitch about the Irish, too? How about the South Africans?
Don’t comment when you know nothing about which you speak of; it’ll save you from appearing a fool.

“anti-Semitism!” cries “R Daneel”. Coincidentally using a name from books by Isaac Asimov, a Jew. So why don’t you identify yourself as a Jew before you spew your anti-White rhetoric? “Anti-Semitism” is a word used to make Whites feel guilt and shame, pushed by Zionists. Funny how you Zionists never reveal who you are in forum threads. You want readers to believe that you are just another American.

“The fact that children have gotten killed in Gaza is almost entirely due to their cynical use by Hamas as propaganda ”

The Israeli military has bombed Palestinian schools. An Israeli gunboat murdered children playing on the beach. Israeli soldiers have fired at children playing in a school yard. The few Israeli soldiers with a conscience have told peace activists of how their sergeants on patrol beat up and sometimes shoot Palestinians at random to provoke them.

In the last Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Zionist soldiers invaded homes and murdered the families there. In one case the soldiers gathered the children in a home and told the mother to choose “which of her children shall die for Israel”.

But you pretend it’s the PALESTINIANS’ fault that they are murdered. “Charlotte Allen” who is obviously not a woman, so stop lying with a name. And obviously a Zionist, not an American, so stop lying by using a Western name.

By your logic, if Israelis would be killed by Hamas, the Israeli occupation government would have orchestrated the killing to use for propaganda. Right? No? What’s the difference?

And in fact, the Israelis use Hamas’ home-made rockets, which have hurt almost no one, as propaganda in the pro-Zionist media all over the world. While these rags “forget” to show the murder of many thousands of Palestinians. So who is doing the propaganda?

Most Americans don’t even know that the Gaza Strip is cut up by Jew-only roads, with Palestinians forced to cross daily at checkpoints that deliberately hold them up. In one case a woman was forced to give birth by the road because the Israelis refused to let her cross the road to the hospital on the other side. But Americans are prevented from knowing all this. So who is doing the propaganda?

“Hamas’s PR campaign”? Zionists like you are really filth. Palestinians are murdered in the thousands by the Israelis, and you blame who? The Palestinian government. Pretending that they want their people to be killed. Sick freak. Palestinians join Hamas knowing many of them will be murdered, they sacrifice their lives to protect others. Unlike Zionists who know they can feed well off the American people’s money.

You Zionists are so predictable. When the facts speak against you, as they always do, you ridicule and demonize. “Anti-Semitism!” And you hide behind American-sounding names, and in this case a female name, to sound like “just an average American”.

You Zionist lovers are so predictable. When the facts speak against you, as they always do, you ridicule and demonize. “Anti-Semitism!”

2,279 calories is not enough when you are doing manual labor all day. Especially not when you are denied the machinery that could help you.

But the Zionists will lie blatantly about everything – pretend that they “researched” the number of calories and it was false, and if faced with clear evidence they will pretend that it is a perfectly fine number anyway. They count on normal people thinking that no one would lie so often and so blatantly as they do.

Israel is defending Western Civilization? Ha! Israel cares only for itself.

If the native people of Palestine were Christian (and many were) or European, non-Jewish Americans (and some who have been murdered by Israelis have been) the Zionist Jews from Europe who created Israel would have expelled them or killed these gentiles without a second thought. Why? They’re not Jewish.

Either you IN the exclusive Jewish club or you’re not.

Israel’s ‘special relationship’ with America is all about what our powerful and wealthy nation can do for international Zionism. That’s all that’s ‘special’ about this concocted alliance. America gets nothing from this fake love affair. It’s an arranged marriage with a rabbi officiating and Zionist lobbyists passing out money.

Results of a DNA study by geneticist Ariella Oppenheim appears to match historical accounts that Arab Israelis and Palestinians, together as the one same population, represent modern “descendants of a core population that lived in the area since prehistoric times”, religiously first Christianized then largely Islamized, and all eventually culturally Arabized.

Before Jewish immigration was financially encouraged by Jewish agency, Jews made 1.7% of population in Palestine. Non-Jewish percentage was 98.3 %

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/israel_palestine_pop.html

One crystal clear and easily provable fact is that the Palestinians occupied most of what is now claimed as Israel. How could it be that the “bad guys” have steadily lost their homes and will surely lose them all, along with many of their lives!
ron, an American

I’m loving @TR’s hilarious parody of Unz Review anti-Semitism.

But he forgot the part about using the blood of dead Gazan children to make matzoh.

What if the children dying in Gaza had parents who weren’t willing to sacrifice them to Hamas’s PR campaign? Now wouldn’t that be something.

“What if the children dying in Gaza were Jews” is a good question. But I’d also ask, what if Jews hijacked airliners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson’s_Field_hijackings)? What if Jews lost a war and continued fighting, out of uniform, taking aim at civilians in restaurants, buses, stores, airports? What if Jews took over southern Lebanon, terrorizing the local population, to use it a springboard for further attacks? What if Jews had been on the United Nations’ dole for the last 66 years and still not gotten their act together? What if the Jews had 20 independent countries to themselves, but insisted on destroying the world’s one Arab country? What if…?

Probably the same place Michele Obama gets the right to tell our children how many calories they may consume at lunch. A 6’4″ teenage boy is given the same number of calories as a petite 4’11″ girl.

Israel is deliberately slaughtering children in Gaza and trying, and failing, to blame it on Hamas firing totally ineffective rockets “toward” Israel and “at” Israel, none of which have caused any damage or death in Israel. The only jews killed by Hamas rockets and mortars were three jews camped out illegally on Palestinian land, a fate they deserved for attempting to steal land that belongs to the Palestinians. This criminal assault by Israel is not a war, it is instead the intentional murder of unarmed and helpless civilians trapped in Gaza by the Israeli blockade. Israel and it’s murderous leaders like Nastyahu need to be hauled kicking and screaming before the ICC and charged with genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes. I have DEMANDED that my representative in congress end all financial and military assistance to Israel or face removal from office. My extended family, friends and associates all agree that America should cut all ties with Israel and join the international community of civilized nations in condemning Israel, imposing an arms embargo on Israel, demand that Israel surrender it’s nuclear arsenal, seize Israeli assets worldwide to compensate the Palestinians and immediately arrest Nastyahu the moment he steps outside of Israel. As an apartheid state, Israel should be dissolved and all the jews in Israel shipped back to where they came from in Europe. Unfortunately, Europe would not want these jews, nor would any other nation on the planet, so let them wander around on leaky boats in the middle of the ocean until they starve or resort to cannibalizing each other, a fate they deserve.

The Israeli soldier is aiming his rifle neither at the mother nor at the children in that photo. The gun is clearly pointed past both. The only reason the gun is up at all is because the soldier is wary that the mother might be a bomb-mom a la the Tsarnaev gals. How stupid do you think your readers are that they can’t tell where a gun is pointing in a photo?

The fact that children have gotten killed in Gaza is almost entirely due to their cynical use by Hamas as propaganda especially appealing to the sentimental Western left in general and the anti-Semitic paleocons in America (left meets right!).

Let’s talk about stolen land. Palestine was a part of the Byzantine Empire and was nearly wholly Christian (except for a significant Jewish population in Galilee and elsewhere) until the Muslim Arabs swept through during the early seventh century. The immediate and continuing aim of the series of Islamic regimes was to destroy Christian civilization in the Holy Land (the deliberate destruction of all Christian monuments) and to drive Christians either into extinction or assimilation via conversion encouraged by confiscatory taxes and other forms of discrimination. The Islamic drive to exterminate the remaining Christian cultures in the Holy Land continues to this day.

The Israelis are standing up against history’s only successful totalitarian culture: Islam. Wherever Muslims rule, there has been the complete obliteration of the civilizations that went before. Where, today, are Babylon, Ctesiphon, Carthage, Constantinople, and even Alexandria? It’s disgusting that paleocons, who claim to honor tradition, actually support tradition’s annihilation.

The strawmen are thick in this “article”. More anti-Semitism defined.

The real question is what would happen to Gaza should they stop firing rockets into Israel? Lay down their arms? Would Israel continue the offensive? Or would it be like before the 1st Intifada with Palestinians working everyday in Israel and an open border?

Hmm? Try that gedanken work.